Sikandar Ali

Dr. Sikandar Ali


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Academic Career Length

13Years (2014-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 March 2019 in Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
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YAYile Ao
Yile Ao
HLHongqi Li
Hongqi Li
LZLiping Zhu
Liping Zhu
SASikandar Ali
Sikandar Ali
ZYZhongguo Yang
Zhongguo Yang

3 December 2020 in Journal of Healthcare Engineering
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NBNighat Bibi
Nighat Bibi
MSMisba Sikandar
Misba Sikandar
IDIkram Ud Din
Ikram Ud Din
AAAhmad Almogren
Ahmad Almogren
SASikandar Ali
Sikandar Ali
For the last few years, computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) has been increasing rapidly. Numerous machine learning algorithms have been developed to identify different diseases, e.g., leukemia. Leukemia is a white blood cells- (WBC-) related illness affecting the bone marrow and/or blood. A quick, safe, and accurate early-stage diagnosis of leukemia plays a key role in curing and saving patients’ lives. Based on developments, leukemia consists of two primary forms, i.e., acute and chronic leukemia. Each form can be subcategorized as myeloid and lymphoid. There are, therefore, four leukemia subtypes. Various approaches have been developed to identify leukemia with respect to its subtypes. However, in terms of effectiveness, learning process, and performance, these methods require improvements. This study provides an Internet of Medical Things- (IoMT-) based framework to enhance and provide a quick and safe identification of leukemia. In the proposed IoMT system, with the help of cloud computing, clinical gadgets are linked to network resources. The system allows real-time coordination for testing, diagnosis, and treatment of leukemia among patients and healthcare professionals, which may save both time and efforts of patients and clinicians. Moreover, the presented framework is also helpful for resolving the problems of patients with critical condition in pandemics such as COVID-19. The methods used for the identification of leukemia subtypes in the suggested framework are Dense Convolutional Neural Network (DenseNet-121) and Residual Convolutional Neural Network (ResNet-34). Two publicly available datasets for leukemia, i.e., ALL-IDB and ASH image bank, are used in this study. The results demonstrated that the suggested models supersede the other well-known machine learning algorithms used for healthy-versus-leukemia-subtypes identification.

9 March 2022 in Mobile Information Systems
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ASAbdul Saboor
Abdul Saboor
MUMuhammad Usman
Muhammad Usman
SASikandar Ali
Sikandar Ali
ASAli Samad
Ali Samad
MAMuhammad Faisal Abrar
Muhammad Faisal Abrar
NUNajeeb Ullah
Najeeb Ullah
A great diversity comes in the field of medical sciences because of computing capabilities and improvements in techniques, especially in the identification of human heart diseases. Nowadays, it is one of the world’s most dangerous human heart diseases and has very serious effects the human life. Accurate and timely identification of human heart disease can be very helpful in preventing heart failure in its early stages and will improve the patient’s survival. Manual approaches for the identification of heart disease are biased and prone to interexaminer variability. In this regard, machine learning algorithms are efficient and reliable sources to detect and categorize persons suffering from heart disease and those who are healthy. According to the recommended study, we identified and predicted human heart disease using a variety of machine learning algorithms and used the heart disease dataset to evaluate its performance using different metrics for evaluation, such as sensitivity, specificity, F-measure, and classification accuracy. For this purpose, we used nine classifiers of machine learning to the final dataset before and after the hyperparameter tuning of the machine learning classifiers, such as AB, LR, ET, MNB, CART, SVM, LDA, RF, and XGB. Furthermore, we check their accuracy on the standard heart disease dataset by performing certain preprocessing, standardization of dataset, and hyperparameter tuning. Additionally, to train and validate the machine learning algorithms, we deployed the standard K-fold cross-validation technique. Finally, the experimental result indicated that the accuracy of the prediction classifiers with hyperparameter tuning improved and achieved notable results with data standardization and the hyperparameter tuning of the machine learning classifiers.

1 July 2016 in Journal of Systems and Software
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SASikandar Ali
Sikandar Ali
SKSiffat Ullah Khan
Siffat Ullah Khan

19 March 2022 in Mobile Information Systems
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ZMZaigham Mushtaq
Zaigham Mushtaq
MRMuhammad Farhan Ramzan
Muhammad Farhan Ramzan
SASikandar Ali
Sikandar Ali
SBSamad Baseer
Samad Baseer
ASAli Samad
Ali Samad
Mujtaba HusnainMujtaba Husnain
Mujtaba Husnain
Diabetes mellitus is a hyperglycemia-like chronic condition that is a troublesome disease. It is estimated that, according to the growing morbidity, by 2040, the world will cross 642 million diabetic patients. This means that each one of the ten adults will be diabetes-affected. Diabetes can also lead to other illnesses such as heart attacks, kidney damage, and even blindness. The prediction of diabetes in advance motivates us to develop a machine learning-based model. A dataset was obtained from the online repository for this work. The obtained dataset was imbalanced. An imbalanced dataset presents a challenge that is needed to be balanced for prediction using multiple machine learning like Tomek and SMOTE. These techniques remove necessary outliers that are incomplete in the provided dataset. These outliers are also managed using the IQR method. Additionally, this research employed a two-stage model selection methodology. In the first stage, logistic regression, Support Vector Machine, k-nearest neighbors, gradient boost, Naive Bayes, and Random Forests were applied to determine the efficiency of prediction based on patients’ preconditioning. At this stage, Random Forest was found to be the best with an accuracy of 80.7% after applying SMOTE oversampling technique to balance the dataset. In the second stage, three better-performing models were used by utilizing a voting algorithm. The results were encouraging, and the model obtained 82.0% accuracy with the default dataset and 81.7% accuracy with the balanced dataset. Naive Bayes Theorem, Gradient Boosting Classifier, and Random Forest were used as inputs to the voting algorithm.

9 July 2024 in IEEE Access
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NBNadia Bibi
Nadia Bibi
FWFazli Wahid
Fazli Wahid
YMYingLiang Ma
YingLiang Ma
SASikandar Ali
Sikandar Ali
Irshad Ahmed AbbasiIrshad Ahmed Abbasi
Irshad Ahmed Abbasi
KHKhyber
Khyber
In order to improve patient outcomes, brain tumors—which are notorious for their catastrophic effects and short life expectancy, particularly in higher grades—need to be diagnosed accurately and treated with care. Patient survival chances may be hampered by incorrect medical procedures brought on by a brain tumor misdiagnosis. CNNs and computer-aided tumor detection systems have demonstrated promise in revolutionizing brain tumor diagnostics through the application of ML techniques. One issue in the field of brain tumor detection and classification is the dearth of non-invasive indication support systems, which is compounded by data scarcity. Conventional neural networks may cause problems such as overfitting and gradient vanishing when they use uniform filters in different visual settings. Moreover, these methods incur time and computational complexity as they train the model from scratch and extract the pertinent characteristics. This paper presents an InceptionV4 neural network architecture-based Transfer Learning-based methodology to address the shortcomings in brain tumor classification methods. The goal is to deliver precise diagnostic assistance while minimizing calculation time and improving accuracy. The model makes use of a dataset that contains 7022 MRI images that were obtained from figshare, the SARTAJ dataset, and Br35H, among other sites. The suggested InceptionV4 architecture improves its ability to categorize brain tumors into three groups and normal brain images by utilizing transfer learning approaches. The suggested InceptionV4 model achieves an accuracy rate of 98.7% in brain tumor classification, indicating the model’s remarkable performance. This suggests a noteworthy progression in the precision of diagnosis and computational effectiveness to support practitioners making decisions.